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' UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEQ CHARLES 1 BONHAOK, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR UNLOADING ERlQTlQN-MATCHES AFTER DRYING.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,191, dated February. 28, 1882.

Application filed December 12,1381. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BONHAGK, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for UnloadingFriction- Matches, of which the following is a specificai tion.

This invention relates to an improved machine for unloading friction-matches after they have been dried and depositing them in regular numbers on shelves, so that they can be conveniently removed and packed into the boxes for shipment. H

The invention consists of a guided follower, to which the setter that contains the finished matches is applied, said follower and setter being moved in horizontal direction by suitable mechanism, so as to force the bunch, with the completed matches sticking out therefrom, against a vertical stop-frame having horizontal partitions, and push them the matches by the push-pins of the setter out of the bunch and along the partitions of the stop-frame onto a series of horizontal unloading-shelves, from which they are successively removed and placed into the boxes. When the bunch has been moved up to the stop-frame the perforated guide plate of the setter is locked thereto by means of hinged latch pieces to the vertical stop-frame, so that the push-pins may be withdrawn from the bunch, which is then removed.

from the apparatus, either to be used over again for setting sticks or for being recharged, as required. 7

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved machine for unloading friction-matches. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line a; m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of aclamp for looking the guide board of the setter to the top piece of the stop-frame, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a bunch of match-sticks, shown detached from the setter to more clearly illustrate the partly-displaced projecting matches sponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the supporting-frame of my improved machine for unloading friction matches after they have been set, dipped, and dried. The'supportingframe A serves to guide in horizontal top and bottom ways, A A a vertical follower, B, which is moved forward in a horizontal direction by means of an actuating screw, lever, or other suitable mechanism. 'The setter F is applied by a dovetailed head into a dovetailed recess of the follower B, the setter being provided with a number of push-pins, f, anda perforated guide-board, F. The push-pins are attached to the head of the setter and arranged in rows and equidistantly from each other, as will appear more fully from a separate application for a machine for setting match-sticks, which has been filed at the same date herewith.

The setter F carries the push pins f, that take against the ends of some of the displaced .n1atches,still-retained in, but not entirely pushed through, the bunch of match-sticks D, whichare securely held together by means of a strong rubber band, D. By the setting-ma chine aseries of sticks have been partly pushed out of the bunch, and then finished by dipping and drying while remaining in the setter. The finished matches project from the end of the bunch D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, and are ready to be entirely pushed out of the bunch by the forward motion of the follower and settr.

The setter F is guided by means of cornerrecesses on the horizontal ways A A of the frame A, its top piece being provided with hinged side pieces, F, which during the setting of the sticks have been placed in position against the perforated side board, F, butwhich are now thrown back to be out of the way when the setter, with the finished matches, is applied to the follower of the unloadingmachine, as shown in Fig. 1. When the bunch D has been moved forward with the setter F until the rows of matches enter into the spaces between the horizontal partitions of a vertical stop-frame, O, and the bunch abuts against said stop-frame, as shown in Fig. 2, the perforated guide-board F is locked at the lower end by means of pins, spring-catches or other devices, a, and at the upper end by means of a detachable clamp, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and in perspective view in Fig. 4,) or, preferably, by means of hinged latches E, arranged at the top of the stop-frame G, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The motion of the follower and setter is then continued until the matches have been pushed entirely through the bunch and beyond the partitions of the stop-frame and deposited on horizontal shelves D which are supported in a removable manner in vertical side standards, D of the frame A. From the shelves the matches are removed directly into the boxes, which, when one hundred push-pins are used in each row of the setter, would push out and deposit one hundred matches upon each shelf D so that consequently the same number of matches is placed in a very convenient manner into each box. As soon as this is accomplished the follower is moved in backward direction and the push-pins withdrawn entirely from the bunch, during which motion the bunch D and the perforated guide-board F are firmly retained in position by the latches E and locking devices a, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, until the pushpins are withdrawn entirely from the bunch. The latches E and locking devices a a are then removed from the perforated guide-board F, and the bunch and the setter removed from the machine, to be returned to the setting-machine for renewed setting of the sticks. In this manner the machine for unloading the matches works in connection with the machine for setting the matchsticks, it simply completstop-frame having horizontal partitions, and of 5 removable horizontal unloading-shelves, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, in a machine for unloading matches, of a guided setter having push-pins and a perforated guide-board with locking devices applied to the upper and lower parts of the guide board so as to retain the same and the bunch for withdrawing the pushpins from the latter, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. BON HACK.

Witnesses PAUL Gonrnn, CARL KARI. 

